When you think of Thanksgiving you think family, food and football. Let me suggest a fourth focus: creature features. The Book of Proverbs, found in the wisdom literature of the Bible, offers insight into the human condition. From my youth on I have asked God for wisdom, knowledge and a good understanding. I have…
Not your typical Thanksgiving fare…
God’s faithfulness to me and his past, present and future covenantal faithfulness to all of his creation… This song says it all…
Setting 1: You’re a leper, one of ten who live quarantined outside the city. You hear of a miracle worker. You leave your colony and head for the crowd. The crowd seeing you parts quickly, gasping. No one wants to be near you. But you are focused to where Jesus is standing. Before Jesus you…
Lest history is revised as a means for present deceptions and determinations and before another angry atheist/liberal professor/fiction writer decides revisionist history is the best way to fool “We the People”, let us read the following proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. A note of context: Eyewitness accounts of the Surrender at Appomattox tell us the events…
Thanksgiving Day. The eponym-iest day of the year for me. I have been brining in blessings all year. It’s time to give thanks. Of course, I love the smell of food that wafts into memories. I love seeing all my kids all at the same time. I love the murmur of kith and kin. And…
